Jasenovac
Proper noun
Meaning
Jasenovac
A municipality of Croatia.
Examples
In 2016, Jakov Sedlar, a controversial Croatian filmmaker, produced a documentary film titled Jasenovac—The Truth, which potrayed Jasenovac as a benign labor camp whose number of victims had been greatly exaggerated.
The pattern of the crime apologists who minimize and trivialize Auschwitz is replicated in Jasenovac, with breath-taking audacity and imitational precision.
The party also oversaw the notorious Jasenovac concentration camp where, according to estimates by the US Holocaust Memorial Museum, between 77,000 and 99,000 people were murdered.
The Jasenovac Memorial Site quotes a similar figure of between 80,000 and 100,000 victims. citation The television documentary, "Nazi Collaborators" on Dinko Sakic stated that over 300,000 people were killed at Jasenovac.
Many inmates arriving at Jasenovac were scheduled for systematic extermination.